Stocking marker



April 10, 1928.

C. T. LA MONT STOCKING MARKER Filed March 14, 1927 2%]! wowlyd.

Patented Apr. 10, 1928. I I} UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES T. LA MONT, F MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

STOCKING MARKER.

Application filed March 14, 1927. Serial No. 175,397.

This invention relates to a stocking marker. a reduced portion 6 terminating in abrupt 50 In the manufacture of full-fashioned shoulders and that a set screw 7 is threaded stockings, it is the regular practice to knit through the body portion 2 and is adapted the stockings on different machines as the to engage the shoulders to prevent withleg portion and heel tabs are formed on drawal or loss of the plunger 5.

a legger. The fabric or blank must then The plunger 5 thus constitutes a yielding 5 be taken off the legger and the stitches point for the marker and it is to be noted transferred to the needles of a footer. In that its extreme end is conical, as indicated order to facilitate the transferring operaat 8, for its major portion and its tip is 10 tion of placing each stitch upon the needle rounded so that the tip of the tool may be bar of the footer, it is customary to spread run up and down the row of stitches by the rows of stitches,.and this has always the operator.

been done by a rigid, pointed tool which is If, for any reason, the point should catch run up and down the rows of stitches by the in the stitches, it will not tear the stitches, as

operator. These tools frequently catch in the spring 4 freely yields and the plunger the stitches and cause a tear or break, thus slides over the stitches without tearing.

damaging the full-fashioned stocking, or If desired, the marker may be provided else rendering it wholly unsalable. with an aperture 9 at its rear end adapted This invention is designed to overcome to receive a retaining cord worn by the op- 20 the defects noted above and objects of such erator, or else such aperture may be used invent-ion are to provide a'marker which is for hanging the tool on a suitable hook. equipped with a yielding point, so that as It will thus be seen that a marking tool the tool is run over a row of stitches the for stockings has been provided in which a point will yield in the event that it catches yielding point is used so that the danger of 25 and thus tearing or breaking of the stitches tearing or breaking the stitches is avoided.

is wholly avoided. It will be seen further that the marker Further objects are to provide a marker is not unwieldy nor is it bulky, and it may which is of extremely simple construction, be used with the same facility as the usual of small size, so that it is neither bulky nor rigid markers.

30 unwieldy, and which is so constructed that Although the invention has been described it may be used with the utmostfacility. in considerable detail such description is in- An embodiment of the invention is shown tended as illustrative rather than limiting in the accompanying drawings in which: as the invention may be variously embodied Figure 1 is a side elevation of the marker and as the scope of such invention is to be 35 partly in section showing its position when determined as claimed.

in use; I claim: :55 Figure 2 is a plan view of the structure 1. A marker for stockings comprising a shown in Figure 1. body portion and a yielding point adapted Referring to the drawings, it will be seen to move inwardly towards the body portion. 40 that the marker comprises a curved body 2. A marker for stockings comprising a portion 1 which is preferably slightly thickbody portion provided with a handle and a ened, as indicated at 2, and tapered towards downwardly and forwardly extending end, its forward end. This forward end is bored 2. member slidably carried by said end, and out to provide the cylindrical aperture 3 yielding means for urging said member outtherein, and a spring 4 is slipped into the wardly with reference to said end, said memapert-ure. Thereafter, a yielding plunger 5 her having a pointed end adapted to operate is slipped into the aperture and has its rear upon the stocking. end bearing against the spring. It is to be 3. A stocking marker comprising a body noted from Figure 1 that the plunger has portion having an aperture therein, a plunthreaded through said body portion adjacent the reduced portion of said plunger 10 cooperating with the shoulder to prevent Withdrawal of the plunger.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand at Milwaukee,

in the county of Milwaukee and State of 15 Visconsin.

, CHARLES 11' LA MONT. 

